Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] support for X11 replies and events

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:21:11 -0800
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 08:22:19PM +0100, Michael Shuldman wrote:
>  - use hashtable and sequencenumber for matching reply to request.

That works only if the capture has all the requests in it (for example:

	if the capture starts in the middle of an X session;

	if packets were dropped;

	if you capture with a snapshot length that cuts packets off);

otherwise, you don't know the sequence numbers of the requests, as you
haven't seen all the requests.